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URANTIA FOUNDATION v. MAAHERRA

No. 95-17093.

114 F.3d 955 (1997)

URANTIA FOUNDATION, a non-profit foundation, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Kristen MAAHERRA, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided June 10, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gordon Dean Booth, Jr., Booth, Owens & Jospin, Atlanta, Georgia, and Robert S. Venning, Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe, San Francisco, CA, for plaintiff-appellant.

Joseph D. Lewis, Cleary, Komen & Lewis, LLP, Washington, DC, Robert C. Lind, Los Angeles, CA, for defendant-appellee.

Before DONALD P. LAY, GOODWIN, and SCHROEDER, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

SCHROEDER, Circuit Judge:

This is a copyright dispute between parties who believe the copyrighted work, the Urantia Book, was authored by celestial beings and transcribed, compiled and collected by mere mortals. In this litigation, the plaintiff-appellant Urantia Foundation claims that the defendant-appellee Kristen Maaherra infringed the Foundation's copyright when she distributed a computerized version of the Book on disk. Maaherra concedes copying...

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